All bellow 20EUR (25$): - Claudius II Gothicus VICTORIAE GOTHIC with tropaion, SPQR series of Cyzicus; some corrosion on the reverse but fully...
These are better than what you usually see for Claudius II. Here is Smyrna late 268: [ATTACH]
The mint was likely Glarentza.
Is that an aegis on the effigy?
I don't remember ever posting these Flemish coins: [ATTACH] A "maille tierce" AR20mm 0.87g heavily circulated for the leeuwengroot of Louis I de...
The label says Italy-Achaia, if true (I can't fully see the legends, but it looks likely) the coins are contemporary imitations of the zecchino of...
I used to and also the French and English kings. But now with access to all these lists one click away, this whole memorization thing seems silly...
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Perhaps you missed it because it's a pre-coronation issue of Roger as mere count?
Why isn't this a follaro or multiple of Ruggero II as Count of Sicily and Duke of Apulia and Calabria, like this or similar? [ATTACH]
Here's Andronikos II at Thessalonica holding large lilies in each hand, ca. 1303-1306: [ATTACH]
There are two series that I follow for Claudius II. SPQR, mainly the early Smyrna types of late 268: [ATTACH] M - C, the early Cyzicus types:...
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A contemporary forgery with silver plating probably.
Wives are so wonderful but ultimately weird creatures that everyone needs a few.
Some examples from the independent states formed after the Fourth Crusade in the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire that were not occupied by...
The bronze coinage of Edessa and Antioch ca. 1100-1120 emulating the Eastern Roman coppers of the late 1000s are also rather big by medieval...
Three denier tournois of Morea minted ca. 1346-1350s for Robert de Taranto as Angevin Prince of Achaea: [ATTACH] 3xAR17/18mm, left to right:...
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